I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion